“In the early 1980s, in Tucson, activists and religious leaders joined forces to protect refugees at the U.S.-Mexico border. Their collaboration galvanized the Sanctuary Movement.”
Guatemala
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Abandoned by Trump, a Farmer and a Migrant Search for a Better Future
“’The longer these funds are not released it is starting to make me think that you do not care for people like me.’”
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The Fatal Flaw in the Border Patrol’s Rescue Program
“The Missing Migrant Program is meant to prevent deaths. Instead, it may be causing them.”
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Guatemala’s Baby Brokers: How Thousands of Children Were Stolen for Adoption
“From the 1960s, baby brokers persuaded often Indigenous Mayan women to give up newborns while kidnappers ‘disappeared’ babies.”
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A Trucker’s Kidnapping, a Suspicious Ransom, and a Colorado Family’s Perilous Quest for Justice
“The killings laid bare a dark side of the transmigrante industry.”
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In Guatemala, a Solo Traveler Learns It’s Sometimes Best to Leap Before You Look
A travel essay in which, during a last-minute solo excursion to Lake Atitlan, Jami Attenberg considers the advantages to taking more risks and opening up to the unfamiliar, and the differences between healthy solitude and isolation.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Story
The Mutilated and the Disappeared
A visit to the only shelter in Mexico for migrants who have been mutilated along the migrant trail.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction
The Mutilated and the Disappeared
A visit to the only shelter in Mexico for migrants who have been mutilated along the migrant trail.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes
In Guatemala on the Wrong Bus
Sarah Miller travels in exactly the way she’d hoped to avoid.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
The Refugees Abused in the Name of Chicken and Profit
ProPublica blows the whistle on Case Farms, which targets refugees for their labor force.